The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-12-10
ALL SORTS OF TROUBLES.
A List That VIII BE Good Enough Until
One Moro Complete Turns UP.

"a A@aSt AhhN VII AS "Dpu 'so"S
One Moro Complete Turns UP.
The trouble with a good many men
is that they spend so much time adj
miring their own ability that they
don't let other people have a chance
to see hat they have any ability tc
admire.
The trouble with a great many
women is that they can't find some
particular selected man. who will APP
prcciate them as they feel in their
palpitating he arts that every woman
should be appreciated.
The trouble with a good many girls
Is that they don't find out what they
want until some time after they have
had the sad conclusion forced upon
them that what they want doesn't
want them.
The trouble with a good many boys
is that they think the red grapes that
grow on a neighbours vine, and that
have TO be picked after dark, are a
cool deal sweeter and better than the
ripe black grapes that grow on their
own vines, and can be gathered in the
bright sunlight of publicity.
The trouble with 4 great many
readers is that they don't understand
how much easier it is to point out a
tree in a magnificent landscape that il
n hairs breadth out ofperspcctive than
it is to paint the magnificent land.
scape itself.
The trouble with most of the horse
car conductors is that they haven't
eyes enough in the back of their heads
to satisfy the public.
The trouble with a good many Of
the school-teachers is that the present
school year is divided wrong; instead
Of being forty weeks school and twelve
weeks vacation, they think it should
be forty weeks vacation and twelve
weeks school.
The trouble with two-ihirds Of the
boys and girls in the public schools is
hat they don't have tifty-threc weeks
vacation every year, with an additional
week on leap year.
The trouble with most of the people
in this misguided world is that they
waste so much time thinking of their
virtues and enterprises that they don't
have leisure to see how laudablc and
useful your little schemes are.
The trouble with the small boy is
that his big sister " was n small
boy herself, and so she doesn't know
how the small boy feels.
The trouble with the small girl il
that she isn't bigger.
The trouble with the big girl is that
every pair of scales she steps on gives
her a weigh.
The trouble with the pnrist in
grammar is that people will persis,
in thinking that things themselves
are more important than how you say
them.
The trouble with lots Of eats is that
they don't get enough dreamlcss sleep
moonlight nights.
The trouble with milliners Is that
the women folks don't get so cnthusi.
astic over their bills as they do over
their bonncts.
The trouble with the average wife
is that her husband is more prodigal
with his protcstations Of affection than
he is with his money and that he
doesn't waste much of either unless
he wants a button sewcd on.
Tie trouble with the average hus-
band is that he knows he isn't so big
u man as he wants the world to think
he is.
The trouble with tho people gener-
ally is that they can. always have
what. they want, and they seldom
think they want what they have; that
they see their W virtues and other
peoples vices with u magnifying
| glass. and turned the telescope tho
wrong end to when they look at their
own vices and other peoples virtues;
that they grumble when things go
wrong instead Of going to work to
make things 60 right: that they cry
over spilled milk when in all proba.
bility the milk has all the water that
It can stand already. - SomcrvW
Journal.